Social conservative Marie Jon over at Renew America pens some advice for women: Forty years of feminist philosophy has brought severe reproof for just about everything the male does. If we listen to the feminists, man is evil, stupid, and unjustly tyrannical. When the truth is that women are evil. To make this point, Marie links to an article entitled … Read More
Five’s A Crowd
Everyone’s got a breaking point: A Pakistani woman beheaded her husband, chopped up his body and dumped the dismembered parts in a sewerage drain after he announced plans to take a fourth wife, police said today. *** She said her 55-year-old husband had taken other wives and flaunted his infidelity, but she was pushed over the edge when he announced … Read More
Cradle-robbing Or Necrophilia? You Make The Call
A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love. It ain’t for money — the woman is dirt poor. This is her 21st husband. Read the story.
Hookers and Congress …and Watergate? — That’s So 1970’s!
Billmon: I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the news (from Harper’s via TPM Muckraker) that Porter Goss, director of the CIA, may be implicated in a hooker service for corrupt (and horny) congressmen paid for by defense contractors and run out of — you really gotta love this part — the Watergate Hotel. So what are we supposed … Read More
The Elusive O
Some rightwing Christian nuttery is simply too good not to pass on. Via Sadly, No, via TBogg, we’re treated to the musings of a blog called the "Edicts of Nancy", and her unique theories: The Left continues to tout the existence of the elusive female orgasm, despite all biological evidence to the contrary. As I have often said, if The … Read More
Bubba’s World
S. Carolina legislature considering a bill to make sale of sex toys a felony. I can’t get my head wrapped around this one. Talk about a victimless crime. Look, even if you are a member of the "moral" "majority", is this an issue that really needs addressing? You’ve got gay marriages, prostitution, etc. — so much to choose from. What … Read More
Vatican Reluctantly Enters 20th Century
Too bad it’s the 21st century. The story: The Vatican is preparing to publish a statement on the use of condoms by people who have Aids, a senior Roman Catholic official has said. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan told La Repubblica newspaper that Pope Benedict XVI asked the Vatican’s council for health care to study the issue. The Vatican says abstinence … Read More
Another Reason To Support The Equal Rights Amendment
A global study has found that people living in countries with high levels of gender equality enjoy the best sex, with the over-40s saying they are most satisfied. Middle-aged and older people who live in Western countries and who enjoy more equality between men and women are most likely to report being satisfied with their sex lives, according to the … Read More
Great Things About Marriage
Coloradans For Marriage is a right wing group opposed to gay marriage in their state. Their website includes a page devoted to "Great Things About Marriage". Like others, I couldn’t help but noticing that the list was a little, um, short.
Purity Balls
You know, sometimes it’s like I’m from another planet. Because what other people find sweet, I find to be borderline creepy. I’m finally reading about this new phenomenon known as a "Purity Ball". It’s like a debutante party except, well, I’ll let PZ Myers explain: Daughters gaze deeply into their father’s eyes and promise "…to remain sexually pure … until … Read More
Pharmacy Protests Escalate
Not only are some pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills and contraceptives (on the basis that it violates their personal religious beliefs), but now there are reports that they are not filling prescriptions for things like antibiotics and vitamins. Why not? Because the prescriptions are being filled for womens’ health clinics which (among other things) also happen to … Read More
Blogbites
For no particular reason, I wanted to share this quote from the Rude Pundit: In any sane nation, Rush Limbaugh would be a homeless junkie, shouting on street corners before he pissed himself again. Also, for no particular reason, did you know that the Lord asks Pat Robertson to ask about other peoples’ sex lives? Here’s a bit from an … Read More
Christians Sue For Right To Be Intolerant
From the L.A. Times: Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant. Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she’s a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation. I can relate to the source of her complaint. In … Read More
What She Said
Shakespeare’s Sister: They say that condoms can be made available as a last resort. But fuck that. Condoms should be flowing like rivers, falling from the skies like rain, in every country where AIDS is wreaking havoc upon its population. Not another single dime should be spent on a billboard, a pamphlet, a button, advocating abstinence until we have made … Read More
You Know The Department Of Homeland Security Is Bad When…
…its Deputy Press Secretary gets busted for using DHS computers to solicit a 14 year old girl, with whom he subsequently engages in phone sex. [Yes, yes, I know it wasn’t really a 14 year old girl, but an undercover cop posing as a 14 year old girl. But that’s pretty much beside the point, isn’t it?] UPDATE: More from … Read More